skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I mean is as currently done it seems to be "try to identify if the request is asking for something we don't want to answer" rather than "verify the produced output doesn't contain anything we don't want", the latter seems much more robust, and wouldn't need anything like the computation power of content generation. I'm sure some degree of input filtering would minimize wasted work, but a simple (at the level that's been trivially possible for more than a decade now) output check seems like it would be much more robust, cheap, and much harder to circumvent - the post check is not trying to interpret the request just blocking the output
Let Me Tell You a Story [video]
The author agrees with you. The point is that teaching adult literacy is out of scope for DEI statements. You can't mention it in a DEI statement.
I completely agree about the value of NOAA Weather Radio.

On a related note, the Federal government has primary rights to 1710 KHz, but it's rarely used, and available on most radios. I think three or four high power 1710 stations, synchronized in the decentralized way that WWVH and WWVB are, would be an excellent use of a narrow slice of spectrum, particularly as a way to disseminate information after sunset.
Tesla’s LFP Model 3 is rated for 272 miles of range. People go on road trips with them all the time.
> But then it ends up being tied to race since black folks are on average coming from a less wealthier class than white people.

Yes, addressing class inequality will also help to address racial inequality.

Seems like a strength, not a weakness.
Cause few are brave enough to stick their neck out and stand up to it. Those who do are called nasty names and are forced to withstand a ideological purity trial that carries some potential of being fired.

There is a lot risk for a minor reward, especially if you don't actually care about the institution you are defending.
That was a great write up! I wish I had the time to follow-up this guide. Thanks for sharing it!
We want to be somewhere between CodePen and Vercel (but with a focus on web standards): a real-time full-stack playground with global hosting and in-editor→edge-deployed workers(/functions).

RTCode is in private alpha. (Currently building Code Versions: diff, rollback, A/B testing; and Code Search: full-text search across all your active deployments).

Our playground and network have proven stable in production in several large enterprises for the last year.

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I'm not an expert on the area, but I've attended some conference talks on the subject at fosdem so I'll give it a go.

Essentially you're trying to provide a way to prove that the code running on the machine is what you instructed. This is achieved by a series of hardware attestations that measure and check the code to make sure it's what you requested. Generally this means encrypted ram at a minimum, and checks/balances that give you confidence this is the case (you have to trust someone, eg: Intel)

Is it perfect, probably not, but it's a lot better than just running VMs with unencrypted memory that any operator can jump into.

To my understanding most GPU workloads are not run in this way currently, and the operator can see/manipulate everything executed
Ditto.

I think that ship has sailed, but I think it's unfortunate that "ReLU(x)" became a popular notation for "max(0,x)".
And using the name "rectified linear unit" for basically "positive part" seems like a parody, like insisting on calling water "dihydrogen monoxide".
Don't get me wrong, Thunderbird is awesome for what it is (and the Mail thingy was kinda perfect as a lightweight mail client) but Thunderbird has some rough edges.

Like it took me long until I figured out how to show message size, filter by date and then sort it by message size. Of course, the Mail thingy wasn't able to do something like that, but I remember waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back, that Communicator (that Mail program which came with Netscape / Mozilla) was way simpler to use than Thunderbird. But maybe my memories are hazy as this was like ~15 - ~20 years ago.
I don't know Ansible well enough to say for sure, but the macro example seems like more of a C preprocessor style "macro." I don't see how it's doing anything more than filling in a template.
> every policy that wants to promote equality should revolve solely around class.

That was the case in USSR. There were university admission quotas for workers, peasants, etc. In practice, they resulted in discrimination agains Jewish applicants.

To fulfill the class quotas, the examiners had to fail a disproportionate number of some of the strongest applicants. A whole set of "Jewish problems", colloquially known as " coffins", was developed. At MIT, Tanya Khovanova has written on this subject.
How would academics react to mandates requiring them to declare their support for:

- Ensuring open access to research

- Committing to long-term, foundational research

- Prioritizing high-quality teaching and mentorship

- Embracing diverse viewpoints

- Questioning established academic orthodoxy

- Focusing research on public rather than personal gain

- Openly sharing data and methodologies

- Upholding research neutrality and objectivity against external influences
Think of it as a productivity hack - Less time spent switching apps means more time enjoying your distractions right where the real work happens: the terminal! :)
I do like Thomas'® English Muffins though.
That's because you're not going to Tesco the registered company, you're going to (one of) Tesco's (shops). It's just traditional and logical grammar, not misnaming.
Last summer, I sat down on our terrace in the dark. We had a temporary old wooden table. In the corner of my eye, I saw something small scurry across the table. When I turned on my flashlight, I saw around 2-3 dozen rolly pollies standing around an almost completely burnt out candle in a semi-circle like at a concert or so. It looked like a ritual or as if they were worshipping something.

Unfortunately, I quickly got disgusted (because I'm a wimp when it comes to insects) and retreated back into the house. But I haven't been able to get this image out of my head for a year. And since you commented about the god of rolly pollies, I finally had the chance to share it. I wish i had taken a photo of it.

P.S: while googling to check if rolly polly is the correct translation to my native tongue, i found out that they're not even insects but crustaceans.
A recent PG essay[0] was revealing about why colleges are so prominent on those profiles and more generally about YC's thinking:

> At this point I'm going to tell you something you might not want to hear. It really matters to do well in your classes, even the ones that are just memorization or blathering about literature, because you need to do well in your classes to get into a good university. And if you want to start a startup you should try to get into the best university you can, because that's where the best cofounders are. It's also where the best employees are.

[0]: https://www.paulgraham.com/google.html
Remember this lesson being taught in the early 1980s. I guess "in software we step on the feet of giants" is still true
Yes. I rather liked "The War Nerd Iliad" by John Dolan ("War Nerd" is a moniker that Dolan used in a column he used to write). It's basically a version of the Iliad that eschews the poetry and tells the story in a straightforward fashion. It's actually quite moving in a way.
Crystal is one of the best of the franchise, altough the patched ROM with all the Pokémon being obtainable ingame makes it a 100% perfect game. You battle around a new story, you fight your past self from the previous games; and, on top of that, you can fight at the battle tower with any style you would like.

You can recompile it with rgbds, for sure there is a decompiled ROM with the 251 modification at lots of repos.
And then there are clouds.
>Windows on Azure

Lol, citation needed if you actually believe this.

>or Microsoft oriented stacks.

is a very complicated way to say Windows desktop.
I don't understand why large companies use email for such important topics knowing that they can be required by law to disclosure them in the future.

I know that large companies have email retention laws, but why not just keep sensitive topics on Signal or similar?
If true it would explain why Microsoft keeps getting better while Google management seems to ignore the founders and keeps getting worse.
Pretty sure I didn't get a Stanford job in part because I didn't submit a DEI statement. It was optional, but clearly sort of like breathing is optional. I actually wrote one, had it reviewed, rewrote. As someone in federal government who made the mistake of being born white and male, but has worked their whole life on these issues (among many others) and made what I think are very defensibly equitable hiring and selection decisions that reflect the US in gender, race, and creed, the whole thing felt very ... icky.
I agree that it's a fine use case. I'm just saying it's simpler if you allow yourself a fresh start.

Won't work well for games and other stuff you can't just recompile on your own.

Going mainframe mode and virtualizing the previous generation has problems in that the older releases don't get security fixes, and may not work as well with tuning and monitoring.

I would not want to run a 10 year old OpenBSD, virtual or not.

E.g. the speculative execution patches would be nontrivial to backport.

But it has valid use cases.
Well, a AM radio can tune to shortwave too. Besides the sarcasm in your comment, the need is to broadcast over a 100 mile range, not 1000s of miles.
Useless does not mean meaningless. Humans are seen as tools is exactly what I am complaining about. You hold meaning even if you're useless which prevents one-self from jumping off a bridge.
Sure. And you reliably get those range boosting conditions daily.
That's true, those also existed but what I've seen, they were not bought as much as the cheap kind. The ipod gave a reason to pay extra, those half way though products really did not.

I had one similar to those https://i.pinimg.com/originals/95/43/8b/95438b86a98370a741c2...

Those things really didn't have a single real feature beyond playing music and recording with a microphone in the settings (which nobody really used)

The screen and processing power was way too bad to do anything else anyways, even if they wanted to.
It's a natural consequence of the statistics that 1. people get more conservative on average as they get older, and the average age of most countries is steadily increasing, and 2. conservatives have more children on average, and political views are partially heritable.
A new problem I'm facing on the hiring end is an influx of imposters from Asia. Everything they claim is a lie, from their name, citizenship, location, picture, to their job history. They even set up fake company sites. And of course they use LLMs to help them pass the interview. I assume it's so they can bilk gullible companies and perhaps do some corporate espionage. I don't know. I haven't encountered anyone try to deepfake their voice and appearance but I assume it's a question of time.

Telltale signs: stilted English, poor internet connection, lack of LinkedIn connections, and an inability to drill down on their fake histories. One claimed to have contributed to an open source BI project while working at Facebook, so I pulled up its GitHub repo and said "Let's see your code". "It's on Gitlab!" he protested. No, it's not; I'm staring at it on GitHub. Another claimed to have worked as a front-end engineer at Netflix. Great, I have friends there. Which team? "The front-end team". I understood that you were a front-end engineer, but which team? Again: "The front-end team!"

In that instant I recalled the scene in Coming to America where Eddie Murphy's character is asked about his education and he confidently replies that he's attended "The University of the United States".

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/4378beae-fdfb-4e6b-a7a9-667f365...
Related: https://yamlscript.org/
Yeah. Are we assuming 100% of the people working on this project are incompetent? I thought OP was talking about new people joining a project producing low quality code that was likely generated by AI.

Code reviews, done by existing more senior members of the project/team, should prevent this. If it isnt then the project has more issues than AI generated code.
Storing files in the Walmart chip aisle
Same experience. Otel is one of the wordiest docs I've ever come across that says very little.

Further, I found a lot of little bugs that are hard to Google, or when Googling finding open issues that are either known and working on, or no response at all.

I ended up just throwing it in the garbage and using direct connectors. I like what Otel is trying to achieve, but it feels extremely opaque and half baked at the moment.
This is something "bothering" me as well. It's either Mac or Linux if you want to be "cool" in tech.

I am always like "wait do you not write any Windows software or is it all on the Web"?

Maybe I am ignorant and stuff and maybe it's just bothering me. :)
> Imagine if you were a cable company or publisher and re-allocate the “stop them from unsubscribing” budget where you slash prices, increase channels in a bundle or enhance broadband speeds to people who are quitting, to instead reward the most loyal customers by going to them and cutting their fees and/or upgrading their services to simply say thank you.

Imagine if they readily cancelled you, and if you were a long time customer, let you know they were either going to refund your last months bill, or gave you an additional free month, whichever would help you the most as you moved on?

I know I wouldn't ever forget that. Precisely because they had no reason to do it than to value helping me, current customer or not.

And how little would that month's service cost them? An imperceptible marginal cost.
In the spirit of trying to learn something from the community: while I can certainly understand the rationale and goals behind DEI programs (many of which I agree with, others not), I honestly can't understand these "DEI statements" at all. They always seemed very "1984" to me, and almost designed to engender resentment in a way that would ultimately backfire. So perhaps I'm in a like-minded echo chamber, but is there anyone that actually defends these DEI statements with a coherent argument, or can you point me to one online? If so, I'd honestly love to hear it, and I mean this quite genuinely. I did some googling beforehand and found loads of "how to write a good DEI statement" articles, but literally every single one of them just took it at face value that these were a good thing to begin with (or, perhaps in their defense, that "academic jobs require it", so you better learn how to write one in any case).
Thanks for proving me wrong! Even if it’s only for a fraction of the people, you’re still right for most people, a large fraction.
As long as you’re not targeted by entities above or considering themselves above, the law, the Veracrypt approach will suffice.
Good point.
You might find this paper interesting.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08435

The confusion about free will comes from a confusion about what "free" means. The everyday use of the word free has little to do with determinism etc.
How so? it clearly said fuck the (users) of wheelchairs.
Being confident doesn't change the fact that you're misinformed about English grammar.
Open Sources Smart Home Hardware
I was driving a 2016 Ford Fiesta. Last year I decided it was too small for my family of three. I wanted an EV, and my needs focus on exactly the practical stuff you describe. I don't need a car that I can turn into a robotaxi or whatnot. I was incredibly disappointed by Tesla. I tried all the EVs at the DC auto show and it feels like all the legacy manufacturers have caught up with Tesla at every price point. I ended up buying a Bolt EUV. It's amazing how much comfort and capability I got per dollar spent. Much better than any Tesla.
Those organizations shouldn't complain about code quality.
The right wing conspiracists would talk about a "New World Order" and something they called "problem-reaction-solution", so they thought this Left authoritarian Woke movement, was designed deliberate by something (the elites?) to push society to voting right as a knee jerk reaction..

I wonder if those conspiracy theories themselves are Chinese propaganda of some kind, or maybe Russian, or are the propagandists themselves giving away the game plan in plain sight. Right in front of you, where the psychological blind spot is. As Vladimir Putin and other authoritarian regimes seem to like Trump and a having right-wing party in power.

So is it a meta conspiracy??? And the real people behind it are China and Russia? That's likely too far fetched though.
Tasmota: Open-source firmware for ESP devices
TheDesk desktop environment
Oh man, this is up there with the story I heard of the guy who used Excel to draw a floor plan. He just split and merged cells as needed and used different border lines to delineate the different wall types. Once again proving that Excel can be used for nearly anything whether you should or not.

Solid work on this, and I love that it takes advantage of the browser to rejigger things without having to redraw everything manually every time.
It looks like you've been using HN to repeatedly promote your links:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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That's excessive and starts to run afoul of this site guideline: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." So if you'd please stop doing this, we'd appreciate it.

HN users, btw, are a lot fiercer than the mods about this and will use unkind words like 'astroturf' and 'spam' when they notice such repeating patterns. It's not in your interest.
Previous submission from 4 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40226114
> For two decades he remained silent about his prewar and wartime work so as to avoid the attention of Poland's Soviet-dominated government [1]

Why would he want to hide that fact from the Soviets?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski
Is there any company that can make a competent product? Valve needs to get into the phone game.
Prometheus: Open-Source Monitoring Solution
I don't think that's a good explanation. The vast majority of people behind such initiatives don't come from underprivileged or victimized backgrounds.

It's more about this idea of being an advocate for the downtrodden - a good person fighting the racists on behalf of those without a voice. And because you're fighting the good fight, it's of course OK to make the oppressors uncomfortable or to bully them into submission.

Depending on your priors, this is either messed up, or it's messed up not to act and accept the status quo. Pick your poison, I guess.
This is really cool, I especially like the syntax you came up with.
A dial should do fine
This is probably a better source as its not a video and has a bit more information

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/5/netanyahu-government...
Preserving the Wilderness Idea: What we talk about when we talk about wilderness
A look back at asynchronous Rust. (2021)
becasue it can be interpreted as acting against the company in first place
Really NPR?

More men die at work. More men get murdered. More men die in car crashes.

The reasons for this are obvious, but we, as a society, are adverse to having the conversation.
What evidence is there that it’s not what it seems? Its not like there’s a shortage of people who’d try something like that in this country.
Well, considering an outbreak of destroyed evidence seems to be happening in the courts, with some accountability hopefully it will be an unwritten law. But of course Congress could also get involved.
Not very different I think... on the air it's the same: they're using VARA, which has been introduced by a ham radio guy (https://rosmodem.wordpress.com/), and is widely used by ham radio operators.

I'm a bit annoyed by the closed and Windows-only nature of VARA (see also discussion https://old.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/12d2s3e/would...), but well, it works well as far as I've heard.
(I cannot speak for the original article, I’ve not put the effort to fully understand it so I won’t categorically say it’s wrong but it didn’t seem right to me.)

The “paradox” is that it can truly be arbitrary! Pick a random point. Shrink your least-squares estimator. You got yourself a “better” estimator - without having any additional information.

That’s why the “Inadmissibility of the Usual Estimator for the Mean of a Multivariate Normal Distribution” paper had the impact that it had.
Ya, AM. The 1Mhz band is insanely long range (under the right conditions, blah blah).

You may protest that you can FM at 1 Mhz and get the range boost on a much nicer sounding signal but:

- FM isnt as efficient as AM and 1 Mhz isnt a lot of space

- FM "locks in" to a station, partially what makes it sound so good. On AM you hear everything and its "up to you" to figure it out; meaning the intended signal is there and you might be able to squeeze meaning out of it (since you know a lot about it). On FM if the receiver cant "lock in" or locks into another station you cant receive any information.

That last point is also why morse code is so reliable - a human operator can very easily distinguish a sine in noise
Sure. If its generating 85% code that passes a code review and 15% of code that doesnt... I'll take those percentages. That is certainly higher than the average early career engineers pr.
You might want to read past the headline. They cover that.
Yup. That is why code reviews are important... Read and understand the code that is going out before it goes out.
It is probably an observation and a forecast at the right time.
I remember my days at one of the Top Home and Enterprise PC manufacturing companies over 15 years ago, when there was criticism around Smart phones.

People laughed assuming that a smart phone is of no use and people prefer a PC or a laptop. Everything else is history.

What is important at all times is the timing and Identifying something that can change the world at the right time.

This is where the Top Leadership roles come into play.
Identify the gaps and introduce the immediate action plan to make the best of the best.
If only there were a program that had crawled bazillions of documents, including all of the traefik documentation, examples, and thousands of code files using it, and if only said program were especially designed to answer natural-language queries about said documents.
Thank you! It's not very hard to use, you basically just flash my firmware and use my script to display images on the Timeframe. That's about it.
Existing street signs need replacement over time too.
Nit: it was spray-painted on his gate, not his house (mansion).
DEI statements are so Soviet-like that even very mild centrism is far to the right from them.

So, shift to the right ... very relative to the starting point, right?
The problem here is also that it's not just annoying, some EU member states are not supported for PSN accounts and according the TOS you can get your PSN account banned if you sign up with the wrong country!
I've (GP commenter) read the essay several times in the past and enjoyed it each time.

My comment was a self-reflection of my failures in taking advantage of leisure time.

I've backpacked for 8 months and moved to a different country. It's all pretty boring, and I haven't found a hobby to stick to.

It seems like your comment implies not only did I not read the article but that I misunderstood the premise.
Bring my yahoo pipes back!
Chickens love rolly pollies.
A noble goal, but isn't it at odds with their policy of backwards compatibility?